New Academic Word List

New Academic Word List 226-250

By Will Salisbury·Updated 25 October 2026

These are words 226 to 250 of the top 400 words of the New Academic Word List: words that appear again and again in university texts and in the Academic IELTS Reading and Writing tasks. For each word, read the example, try to guess the meaning, then reveal it and mark honestly how you did. Then say the word aloud, record yourself and compare it with the model voice. When you have finished, try the gap quiz and save your results.

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Each sentence has one gap. Drag a word into the gap, or tap a word and then tap the gap. The words are the ones you have just practised, and some of them have changed shape (for example, is or made).

1. There is a strong of rain tomorrow, so take an umbrella.
2. The two cars are in price and size, so it is hard to choose between them.
3. The of the earthquake was measured on a scale from one to ten.
4. The shop sells a wide of goods, from fresh food to clothes and books.
5. The of disabled students in ordinary classes is a goal of the school.
6. Cars give off carbon dioxide, and the of such gases must fall to protect the climate.
7. From the dark clouds she drew the that rain was coming, although no one had said so.
8. Please book a -smoking room for me, because smoke makes me cough.
9. After the accident he lost and woke up later in hospital.
10. She can speak and write , doing both things at the very same moment.
11. Neighbours complained about the late-night of noise and shouting in the street.
12. The army has a strict of ranks, from private at the bottom to general at the top.
13. The of the Earth around its axis causes day and night.
14. The of the results was questioned, because the test did not measure what it claimed to.
15. The metals are shown in the table, a chart that lists every chemical element.
16. She studies , digging up old buildings and tools to learn how people lived long ago.
17. A single is the smallest unit of a chemical element.
18. The engineer made a small to the design so that the bridge could hold more weight.
19. A thin divides the large room into two smaller offices.
20. The government plans to a new programme next year to help young workers.
21. Teenagers want more and the freedom to make their own decisions.
22. Cold weather can the growth of plants, slowing it down or even stopping it.
23. The letter b stands for a sound, made by closing the lips and then letting air out.
24. In class we studied plants and animals and how they grow.
25. In the worst-case the project would fail, and the company would lose its money.

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Word list: New Academic Word List 1.2 by Charles Browne, Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips (2013), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The list gives the words and their order; the meanings, examples and exercises on this page are our own.

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